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...backwardness of Albania early in his stay. Setting out to replace a razor (he had lost his suitcase in Budapest), he discovered that the only kind available was locally made−and lethal. It worked only by taking off large slices of skin. Behr mentioned this casually to his Albanian guide, who replied simply: "There is always some trouble about our razor." The shopping trip had one advantage: Behr got one of his few chances to talk alone with a native Albanian, a pharmacist who had been to Paris years ago. and who plaintively asked whether things were the same...
Brothers United. This fear of local independence inspired a blistering attack last week by Moscow's Problems of Peace and Socialism, an official party journal, which condemned Albania (and by implication, Red China) for pursuing "narrow, nationalistic, egoistic interests." The magazine also denounced the Albanian government as a "regime of terror." The world was thus witnessing the extraordinary spectacle of two Communist states hurling at each other the kind of blasts they ordinarily reserve for the West. Radio Moscow accused Albania of mass arrests and purges in which a pregnant woman Communist leader opposed to Dictator Enver Hoxha...
...same time, the Albanian boss paid homage to his regime's new-found "elder brother, the Chinese people." Last week Big Brother and Little Brother further cemented their new relationship with a trade and technical aid agreement...
...final. "A political corpse!" shouted the chief of the Soviet secret police to the cheering delegates of the 22nd Party Congress. The public autopsy accused Old Stonebottom. for ten years Stalin's Foreign Minister, of complicity in Stalin's bloody purges and of plotting with Chinese and Albanian Communists against Khrushchev's current line of "peaceful coexistence" with capitalism. Denounced as a "bandit" and an "enemy of the party," Molotov, 71, was summoned back to Moscow from Vienna, where for the past 14 months he had been the Soviet delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency...
...same time that Russian and Czech-built "naval units" were steaming into Egyptian ports to add muscle to his navy. Israeli newspapers warned that Nasser was about to reverse his stand against foreign bases by opening Alexandria to Moscow as a replacement for Russia's abandoned Albanian submarine base. Actually, Nasser granted a scant 35 minutes to the delegation's chief, Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy, and, as one Western observer noted: "Even a fast-talking Russian couldn't persuade a stubborn man like Nasser to make such an about-face...